DConf 2013 official car/room sharing thread
John Colvin
john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 18 12:29:19 PDT 2013
On Thursday, 18 April 2013 at 18:45:56 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:50:55AM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/18/2013 10:42 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> >I certainly don't mind winding and narrow. Cycling isn't
>> >inherently
>> >dangerous, but the two main things that don't help are - lack
>> >of
>> >cycle paths; careless or inconsiderate drivers.
>>
>> When you have cars brushing by your elbow at 40 mph, well, I
>> thought
>> that was very dangerous. When going around curves, cars
>> routinely
>> cut into the inside shoulder. They'll do it on blind corners,
>> too.
>>
>> I'm actually surprised that a lot more bikers aren't killed
>> around
>> here, although many are. I walk a lot, and many times I've had
>> to
>> step lively off of the road.
>
> Speaking of careless drivers... not long ago up here in
> Canuckland (a
> few hours' drive from Seattle, incidentally), I almost got run
> over by a
> car *while crossing a crosswalk with flashing lights*. There
> was another
> vehicle which had come to a stop in the outer lane, which may
> have
> obscured me, but the car in the inner lane obviously didn't see
> me and
> didn't notice the big flashing lights above the crosswalk (and
> didn't
> consider why the vehicle on her right had stopped at a
> crosswalk with
> big flashing lights above).
>
> Fortunately I was keeping an eye on it (I wasn't sure if it was
> slowing
> down so I hesitated). The driver screamed (oh yeah did she
> scream -- I
> could hear it through her closed windows) and slammed the
> brakes when
> she saw me, but couldn't stop in time; I stepped back just in
> time as
> she passed in front of me about 1-2 feet at the most.
>
> Since then, I no longer assume that red lights, pedestrian walk
> signs,
> or crosswalk flashing lights mean anything to drivers. You
> might pay for
> that assumption with your life. *shudder*
>
>
> T
In quite a bit of mainland europe, red lights only apply to
straight on traffic and not to people turning. The number of
times I almost got killed by cars turning into me in a single
week in Rome was ridiculous!
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